To:L. K. MARTENS

Written:Written on October 15, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeMartens:

CanHammer(Reinstein told me about
him[1])

be
persuaded to

undertakethe financing of the Rutgers group to save the
Urals,improvingthe composition of the group? by
including, say, fourefficientAmericans?

Letme have an answer to this as soon as possible.

Second.Can you get Hammer to take an interest in a
scheme to electrify the Urals, so that Hammer should
provide not only the grain, but also the electrical equipment
(naturally on a loan basis)?

Rutgers’splan must becorrected(try to do this through
Hammer), and not simply
rejected.[2]

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]SeeDocument 439 of this volume.—Ed.

[2]Areference to L. K. Martens’s negative attitude to the plans
of the Rutgers group. In a letter to the C.L.D. on October 10,
he said that these plans revealed immaturity, lack of careful
thinking and lack of knowledge of the state of affairs in the localities;
he objected to the financing of these plans, because he doubted
that they would succeed.